Top 100 contractors in Irak-Afganistan

[Tigersoap]

I don't know if it was posted already (I may have missed it when searching for it) but here is a list of the 100 private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2004-2006

Source:_http://www.publicintegrity.org/WOWII/database.aspx?act=toponehundredcontractors

Here are the fifteen top companies

* Unidentified Foreign Entities $20,435,870,190
1 KBR Inc (formerly known as Kellogg Brown and Root) $16,059,282,020
2 DynCorp International (Veritas Capital) $1,838,156,100
3 Washington Group International Inc $1,044,686,850
4 IAP Worldwide Services Inc (Cerberus Capital Management LP) $901,973,910
5 Environmental Chemical Corp $899,701,070
6 L-3 Communications Holdings Inc $853,535,680
7 Fluor Corp $736,853,200
8 Perini Corp $720,859,110
9 Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) $617,089,510
10 Parsons Corp $579,265,450
11 First Kuwaiti General Trading And Contracting Company Wll $495,404,500
12 Blackwater USA $485,149,590
13 Tetra Tech Inc $362,107,010
14 AMEC PLC $317,171,280
15 Laguna Pueblo (Laguna Construction Company Inc) 312,677,530

From the overview text which can be found here :

_http://www.publicintegrity.org/WOWII/default.aspx

Other key findings from the Center's analysis:

• Over the three years studied, more than $20 billion in contracts went to foreign companies whose identities—at least so far—are impossible to determine.

• Nearly a third of the companies and joint ventures on the Top 100 are based outside the United States. These foreign contractors, along with the $20 billion in contracts awarded to the unidentified companies, account for about 45 percent of all funds obligated to the Top 100.

• U.S. government contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan have grown more than 50 percent annually, from $11 billion in 2004 to almost $17 billion in 2005 and more than $25 billion in 2006.

It seems that everyone has been glutoning on this although they'd rather hide it because I'd bet some of the companies are within countries that were against the wars in the first place.
Pathocracy united unlimited in action for you.

 

[Laura]

Let's face it, anybody in the U.S. can form a shell company in some foreign country with no direct link back to themselves and get a contract, get paid, and do nothing. I'll bet that's what's happening with the Bushies and their pals at the head of the gravy train.

 

[Rick]

And not surprisingly these are the some of the same companies managing the development of the next generation of nuclear bombs. They'll knock 'em down and build them up.

The Nation;
Consortium wins contract to run Livermore lab;
The partnership, which is given a seven-year deal, includes the UC system, which has long run the facility.

May 9, 2007 Wednesday

by Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times

The Energy Department on Tuesday awarded a seven-year contract to operate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to an industry consortium that includes the University of California, which has run the lab since it opened in 1952.

This year the lab was selected by the Energy Department to design and develop a new generation of nuclear bombs, known as the reliable replacement warhead. A report by an independent group of scientists warned that the project faced serious technical challenges.

The management consortium, Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC, was selected to run the Livermore lab over a competing group led by Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. Energy Department officials said the consortium submitted a superior proposal and a lower bid.

Under the new contract, the team, which includes Bechtel National Inc., BWX Technologies Inc. and Washington Group International Inc., would receive $297.5 million over the seven-year contract. The consortium also includes Battelle Memorial Institute, Texas A&M University and several small businesses.

The University of California's contract to operate Livermore was put up for bid after Congress grew concerned about the management of another facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, which has been shaken by a series of security and safety lapses over the last decade. The Livermore lab escaped much of the criticism but was included in the requirement for a contract competition.

The consortium is nearly identical to the group that took over Los Alamos, though the relative shares that each member has in the corporation is different. At Livermore, the University of California controls half of the six-member board, said Gerald L. Parsky, chairman of the consortium's board.

Another bid was submitted by a group calling itself Green LLC, which consisted of two nuclear watchdog groups, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment and Nuclear Watch of New Mexico. Energy Department officials said Green's proposal to transform the lab into a "center for civilian science" was not responsive to the government's request.

Meanwhile, three students and alumni at UC campuses in Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Berkeley went on hunger strikes this week to protest the involvement of the university system in designing nuclear weapons.

Energy Department officials dismissed their demands.

"We urge students participating in this action to cease the strike and to eat," said Chris Harrington, a UC spokesman.